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At a press event in Dubai, Namco Bandai revealed that the PS3 version of Tales of Graces F will see a European release in 2012. Europe will also get the 3DS remake of Tales of the Abyss, though no date was given at the time.
The company’s North American website for Graces F also shows a 2012 date, effectively confirming its release in both markets.
Source: Joystiq
Toshiro Tsuchida, Front Mission creator and FFXIII battle director, announced this week why he parted with Square Enix back in February. According to Famitsu, he explained he is now working as executive director at the mobile social gaming firm GREE.
Source: Andriasang
With FY 2010 ending back on March 31, Square Enix has sent out a revised forecast of its performance. As of February, the company had been holding onto a ¥1 billion profit, but by the end of the fiscal year that had fallen to a ¥12 billion loss. At an investor’s briefing, CEO Yoichi Wada explained that about ¥4.5 billion stem from ongoing Final Fantasy XIV maintenance and title cancellations.
As part of a recovery effort, Wada stated that he aims to increase the push for social networking games and phone apps, and to double the company’s major brands to ten or so over time.
Source: Andriasang
Dark Souls, From Software’s spiritual follow-up to Demon’s Souls, now has an official site located hereabouts. A recently released trailer confirms the launch timeframe as October 2011 for both 360 and PS3, though an exact date is not yet known.
The Harvest Moon series boasts of a long history that hardly requires introduction. While detractors will likely only groan at yet another DS iteration, fans of the series will be tickled by the tweaks to the Harvest Moon formula that make Grand Bazaar a fresh experience.
Continue reading ‘Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar – Staff Review’ »
A veritable sea of callbacks and references, Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy is about what is expected from a massive crossover game. Whether this is a good thing or not depends a great deal on what your personal feelings are towards the Final Fantasy series, but thankfully, the underlying mechanics are solid enough that even those who find the constant self-reference tiresome should find something to enjoy. Dissidia Duodecim is a game with a steep learning curve, omnipresent loading times, and a rather disjointed plot, but it also presents a wonderfully deep combat system and a pool of content so huge that it borders on the absurd. But given how heavily the game relies on its combat system, how much a player will enjoy Dissidia Duodecim depends a lot on how eager they are for a fast paced battle.
Continue reading ‘Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy – Staff Review #2’ »
Atlus has launched an official Japanese website for Noora to Toki no Koubou, an upcoming DS title from the team behind the Atelier and Etrian Odyssey series. The story appears to center around Noora, a craftswoman by trade, who employs a secret art of time manipulation to construct items. This ability causes her to be confused with a witch of local folklore, and thus she sets out to clear her name in the usual RPG fashion: help the locals and deal with monsters. Noora will have multiple endings, presumably based on your actions over the game’s three-year time period, but further details are not yet known.
The game is set for a July 21 release in Japan. A US release has not been announced at this time.
Source and translation: Andriasang
In case you missed it on What Happened This Week, Too Human – intended to be a trilogy of techno-Norse mythology – is still on Silicon Knights’ to-do list. Since its launch, Too Human has been the subject of ongoing litigation between the developer and Epic Games, who licensed the Unreal engine upon which the game is based. However, a recent interview with SK president Denis Dyack confirmed that they plan to finish the series, though no further comment was given at the time.
Source: Industry Gamers
EA’s release calendar has given more up-to-date information about Mass Effect 3. The title is now set for a Q4 release, putting it somewhere between January 1 and March 31 of 2012. Additionally, a handheld and/or mobile version of Mass Effect 3 is planned, indicated by the same calendar, but little else is known at this time.
Source: 1UP
How’s things, everybody? It’s that time again, time to pick back up Valkryia Chronicles 2 and prepare my New Vegas dude for the next batch of DLC. But before we do that, join me as we discuss the news and celebrate my favorite British Let’s Player getting his very own fanart. In this week’s headlines:
Continue reading ‘What Happened This Week – This Belongs in a Museum’ »
Square Enix announced today that, apart from boxed retail copies, both the regular and Augmented Editions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be available via Steam. The Augmented Edition includes the usual artbook, making-of videos, soundtrack, graphic novel, and so on, but on top of that is a free download of the original Deus Ex, specifically the Game of the Year Edition.
Preorders on Steam carry a 10% discount for today only: $53.99 for Augmented, $44.99 for standard.
Source: Shacknews
XSEED has just launched the official website for Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls, the PS3 entry in the long-running classic RPG series. Available solely through PlayStation Network, Wizardry is expecting a Spring 2011 launch.
Further information can be found on the site, located over yonder.
At first glance Din’s Curse gives the impression of a leaner, more efficient take on Diablo or Torchlight. You know the genre by now: you’re the hero, there’s the dungeon, clear quests to get loot, kill the boss, rinse and repeat until game over. Much of that holds true here, but get past that outer layer and you’ll find the devil in the details, and a fiendishly clever one to boot. Where other games sit and wait for you to make your move, Din’s Curse plays back, and aggressively so. Supported by strong and versatile gameplay, the central mechanic turns a by-the-numbers hunt for better gear into a tense, engaging, and meaningful dungeon crawl.
Continue reading ‘Din’s Curse: Demon War – Staff Review’ »
If there’s one thing we can all appreciate, it’s the ability of a major news event to bring us all together in a contest to come up with the best one-liners. Personally I’m fond of “Yet another thing started and finished in the time it took to complete Duke Nukem Forever.” Hats off to whoever came up with that first. Anyhow, on with the media: Chaos Rings Omega, Frontier Gate, Grand Knight’s History, Labyrinth no Kanata, Ragnarok: Hikari to Yami no Kouji, and Tales of the Abyss 3DS. Give it a look-see!
Continue reading ‘Mass Media 05/02/11’ »
Greetings and salutations! Time for the news, and what a busy week it’s been for that. You gotta hand it to Sony, when it comes to spectacular failures they’re such hard act to follow. Anyway, let’s see what’s happening:
Continue reading ‘What Happened This Week – It Only Leaks Everything’ »
As has been done before, Square Enix has bundled all its Final Fantasy XI content to date into one downloadable package. The Final Fantasy XI Ultimate Collection Abyssea Edition includes everything so far: all four main expansions, the three smaller add-ons (Crystalline Prophecy, Moogle Kupo d’Etat, and Shantotto Ascension,) and all three of the Abyssea add-ons. This collection also includes access to an in-game Destrier Beret, which has bonuses intended to help new players.
The Abyssea Edition will be available via Steam, Nexway, and Metaboli starting May 16.
Source: Eurogamer
Square Enix and Media Vision are teaming up for another iPhone venture, a prequel to last year’s Chaos Rings. Titled Chaos Rings Omega, the game takes place some 10,000 years prior to the original, and the character Viegue, who appeared in Chaos Rings as Olgar, is the central figure in the story. While Omega is not a true sequel, an actual Chaos Rings II is in development – as evidenced from the end of the Omega trailer – but little is known at this time.
Omega is set to hit the app store in May. The game’s trailer can be found over on YouTube.
Source: Andriasang
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